Digital Art and Artists on Art Report Today

The Gallery of the Future: Navigating the Evolving World of Digital Art; People will always crave a personal connection to art, and the value of in-person experiences will likely rise, not diminish, with digital access

The Prophets: Marshall McLuhan

Krista Kim Is Bringing Humanity Back to the Metaverse, One Digital Heartbeat at a Time; We're on The Precipice of a Paradigm Shift With Web3, Kim Said

Happy Valentine's Day! AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends Making Their Mark; Artificial Intelligence, Real Emotion. People Are Seeking A Romantic Connection With The Perfect Bot

Art Review: Robot Rights and Android Dreams: New on Netflix, Naoki Urasawa’s 'Pluto' resonates in a world at war

‘A Kind of Magic’: Veteran Pop Artist Peter Blake Says Possibilities of AI Are Endless For Art

Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments; Lucian Grainge (called “a killer shark” and “the smartest motherfucker in the music business”), the chairman of UMG, has helped record labels rake in billions of dollars from streaming. Can he do the same with generative artificial intelligence?

Inside the Magical World of AI Prompters on Reddit; Story of AI images isn’t just about robots, but also about the people behind these strange, futuristic visuals.

Edel Rodriguez Isn’t Afraid to Live With the Consequences; Political artist drew some of the most provocative images of the Trump presidency. “Worm,” his new graphic memoir of emigrating from Cuba to the U.S., skewers the powerful once more

Exposed: Meta’s $36 Billion Plot to Reengineer Society and Mark Zuckerberg’s Dangerous Future Plans for Tech Addiction

Edith Piaf AI-Generated Biopic in the Works at Warner Music

AI-Generated Actor Jimmy Stewart Narrates A New Bedtime Story For Calm App 25 Years After His Death; Family Gave Permission

Why Silicon Valley’s Biggest AI Developers Are Hiring Poets; Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing

Julia Friedman: Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda; There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art

Exhibition: 'We’ve Been Dreaming About a Magical Jungle' Group Show with Clayton Campbell

Chimeric creature descends on the Whitney Museum in new augmented reality commission; Nancy Baker Cahill’s augmented-reality work explores the climate crisis and interdependence between humans and nature

NFT Artist Scores Big Win in Multimillion Dollar Contract Dispute Over a Blank Space; Plaintiff's contract with artist Coolman Coffeedan contained a "fatal" error, the court said

'Undress Anybody' AI Puts A-list Deepfakes In Adult Films – And 'No One's Safe'

The NFT Renaissance Beyond Digital Collectibles; Practical applications of NFTs are numerous, but can they democratize art?

Tim Burton Blasts AI Recreations of His Style as ‘Very Disturbing’: ‘It’s Like a Robot Taking Your Humanity, Your Soul’

Art Angle Podcast: Why Digital Art Lives Fast and Dies Young; Look at an entirely new field within the art world dedicated to conserving new media art works

BuzzFeed: The Invasive AI Creations

Yue Minjun’s NFT Debut Nets Over USD 1 Million in Hours

What the Latest US Court Ruling Means For Ai-Generated Art’s Copyright Status; Judge said the absence of a “guiding human hand” disqualified the AI-generated image from copyright protection, but other generative art may still qualify

Keith Haring’s Never-Before-Seen Computer Drawings Are Hitting the Block as NFTs at a New Christie’s Online Auction; Haring created the drawings on an Amiga in the 1980s

How Digital Artist William Mapan Adapted an Early Paul Klee Abstract Drawing Into a Generative Series of Vivid Aerial Landscapes

NFT Market Has Tanked. So Why Is This Major Hollywood Talent Agency Still Betting Big on Web3 Artists? William Morris Endeavor boasts a roster of some 50 Web3 creatives, including Claire Silver and Krista Kim

Merch: New Augmented Reality App turns objects at the Metropolitan Museum into digital gaming accessories; The app, Replica, is a partnership with Verizon that lets visitors deploy works from the museum’s collection in the popular game Roblox

I’m a Popular AI Influencer: Followers Crave My Sexy Snaps, But I Don’t Exist

Jackson Pollock’s Paint-Splattered Studio Floor, Caked With Residues of His Artistic Activity, Will Be Featured in a New NFT Collection; For the Ab-Ex star’s first Web3 outing, collectors will receive a NFT and a hand-numbered museum-quality print

New Gucci NFTs combine fashion and art using generative AI; In a collaborative project initiated with Christie’s, Gucci has commissioned artists to create a total 21 pieces of art that will be auctioned as NFTs

Hospitality disruptor Leven wants you to vacation in the Metaverse; Virtual hotel offers the opposite of a digital detox

Is AI generating an ‘averaged’, one-sided, view of art history? Artists are getting creative to counter visual language being skewed by image-generating apps that average out scraped stock photos and social media files into “mean images”

AI might now be powerful enough to be ‘using’ artists; It is time to think about the extent to which technology itself has power over us, independent of people in tech companies

A.I. Art Experts Dismiss Fears That the Technology Will Destroy Humanity. But It Could Make Culture Really Boring; Four A.I. experts weigh in on the future of creativity in the age of artificial intelligence

Podcast: Google’s A.I. Art Guru on the New Age of Disruption

Moving Beyond Killer Robots, a New Show Explores How Artificial Intelligence Can Be Deployed to Care for Humans; "AI: Who’s Looking After Me?" is on view at Science Gallery London

The Free Press: AI Will Save the World; Artificial intelligence won’t end civilization, argues Marc Andreessen. Just the opposite. It is quite possibly the the best thing human beings have ever created

How Technology Is Impacting Power Dynamics In The Art World; Panel discussion with speakers Simon de Pury, Nina Roehrs and Gretchen Andrew

See Inside the World’s First A.I. Art Hackathon, Where Artists Trevor Jones and Hackatao Sparked a Human-Machine Alliance

Podcast: Why This A.I. Art Pioneer Thinks Text-to-Image Generators Are Killing Creativity

Interview: ‘If artificial intelligence creates better art, what’s wrong with that?’ Top Norwegian investor and art collector Nicolai Tangen; Head investor of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund worries more about AI affecting the country’s portfolio than his own collection of paintings

Why Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti Is Still Bullish on NFTs; Auction-house executive talks about Beeple, changing luxury markets and how he prepares for triathlons

Review "Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982": Computer-Generated Art, Decades Before Midjourney; Futuristically thrilling but aesthetically limited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

When Life Imitates a Wes Anderson Movie; Photographer Ava Williams’s TikTok video of an Anderson-style train ride unleashed a new cinematic subgenre on the platform

Self-Adjusting Netflix Shows? A.I. Prompts as Artworks? Three Artists Debate What Technology Has in Store for Creative Work; Sebastian Errazuriz, Khyati Trehan, and Trevor Paglen joined Artnet's Sonia Manalili talk, in partnership with Mortlach

Real child murder victims recreated by AI in sick true-crime TikTok trend

Louis Vuitton Is Selling Its Iconic Trunk as a $39k NFT; Digital trunks will leverage LVMH (LVMHF)'s Aura blockchain, which was created to crack down on counterfeits in the luxury world

Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation

Call John Waters! VR ‘Smell-O-Vision’ May Enable Users to Detect Dozens of Odors

Quilters of Gee’s Bend Head to the Blockchain, Collaborating With a Young Generative Artist on a Series of NFTs

The Digital: Consumer vs. Appreciator

Emily Dickinson’s Apple Computer House; The 19th-century poet, whose verse still resonates with its open-ended sense of how language produces meaning, is a model for a group of Brooklyn coders inventing a more humane computer

Is Crafting ‘Super Prompts’ for A.I. Generators the Art of the Future? Probably Not; A.I. Clement Greenberg would like to have a word

Harry Potter by Balenciaga Via AI

Star Wars by Balenciaga Via AI

The Office by Balenciaga Via AI

Molly Crabapple Has Posted an Open Letter by 1,000 Cultural Luminaries Urging Publishers to Restrict the Use of ‘Vampirical’ A.I.-Generated Images; Letter pulls no punches, saying generative A.I. 'sucks the lifeblood' from living artists’

‘Cool Time To Be Making Sh*t’: Why Artist Illma Gore Is Optimistic About The Rise of AI

The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI; US Supreme Court’s upcoming decision could shift the interpretation of fair use law—and all the people, and tools, that turn to it for protection

Bari Weiss: Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One? Bari Weiss converses with Sam Altman, the man behind ChatGPT, about the risks and responsibilities of the artificial intelligence revolution